Saturday July 26, 2008

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z JULY 26, 2008


Impact of the Northern and Central California fires:
Smoke from long burning wildfires in northern California if being
pulled northeast into south central and eastern Oregon and into central
Idaho. A fire west of Yosemite is producing a plume of smoke moving
north along the western edge of the Sierras. Fires also continue to burn
in Monterey county with the smoke moving south out over the ocean from
Point Conception south to west of the S. California islands.

Idaho:
A lone fire in Power county SW of Pocatello is producing a plume of
smoke that is moving northeast toward the Tetons.


Impact of the Canadian fires:
Dense to moderately dense smoke from fires near Great Slave Lake
is being pulled northwest toward Great Bear Lake in the Northwest
Territories. Some of the smoke from the fires south of Great Slave Lake is
extending southeast and joining with very thick smoke from fires around
Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan. This dense pool of smoke is
then being stretched and creating a band of smoke that is being pulled
around a low in Hudson Bay. The band from Northern Saskatchewan extends
southeast across central Manitoba to the Lake of the Woods region of
western Ontario. The smoke then widens and becomes less dense to cover
most of northern Minnesota, western Lake Superior all of Wisconsin
and the northern 2/3rds of Michigan and across the Georgian Bay into
eastern Ontario.

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Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.